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    Sat Sep 1 22:45:15 2007 UTC (16 years, 9 months ago) by niro
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    -import if magellan mkinitrd; it is a fork of redhats mkinitrd-5.0.8 with all magellan patches and features; deprecates magellan-src/mkinitrd
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    2    
    3     =head1 LIBC NSS
    4    
    5     GNU Libc (glibc) uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior
    6     of the C library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads
    7     system data, such as passwords and group information. This is implemented
    8     using an /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file, and using one or more of the
    9     /lib/libnss_* libraries. BusyBox tries to avoid using any libc calls that make
    10     use of NSS. Some applets however, such as login and su, will use libc functions
    11     that require NSS.
    12    
    13     If you enable CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP, BusyBox will use internal functions to
    14     directly access the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files without
    15     using NSS. This may allow you to run your system without the need for
    16     installing any of the NSS configuration files and libraries.
    17    
    18     When used with glibc, the BusyBox 'networking' applets will similarly require
    19     that you install at least some of the glibc NSS stuff (in particular,
    20     /etc/nsswitch.conf, /lib/libnss_dns*, /lib/libnss_files*, and /lib/libresolv*).
    21    
    22     Shameless Plug: As an alternative, one could use a C library such as uClibc. In
    23     addition to making your system significantly smaller, uClibc does not require the
    24     use of any NSS support files or libraries.
    25    
    26     =head1 MAINTAINER
    27    
    28     Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
    29    
    30     =head1 AUTHORS
    31    
    32     The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether they know it or
    33     not. If you have written code included in BusyBox, you should probably be
    34     listed here so you can obtain your bit of eternal glory. If you should be
    35     listed here, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
    36     incorect, please send in an update.
    37    
    38    
    39     =for html <br>
    40    
    41     Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it>
    42     run-parts
    43    
    44     =for html <br>
    45    
    46     Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
    47    
    48     Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
    49     core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
    50     Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that
    51     nobody is going to actually read.
    52    
    53     =for html <br>
    54    
    55     Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk>
    56    
    57     rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm
    58    
    59     =for html <br>
    60    
    61     Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com>
    62    
    63     ftpput, ftpget
    64    
    65     =for html <br>
    66    
    67     Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
    68    
    69     expr, hostid, logname, whoami
    70    
    71     =for html <br>
    72    
    73     John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
    74    
    75     du, nslookup, sort
    76    
    77     =for html <br>
    78    
    79     Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
    80    
    81     tiny-ls(ls)
    82    
    83     =for html <br>
    84    
    85     Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
    86    
    87     fbset, ping, hostname
    88    
    89     =for html <br>
    90    
    91     Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
    92    
    93     more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
    94     various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
    95    
    96     =for html <br>
    97    
    98     Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
    99    
    100     ipcalc
    101    
    102     =for html <br>
    103    
    104     Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
    105    
    106     tftp client insmod powerpc support
    107    
    108     =for html <br>
    109    
    110     Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
    111    
    112     pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
    113    
    114     =for html <br>
    115    
    116     Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
    117    
    118     httpd
    119    
    120     =for html <br>
    121    
    122     Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com>
    123    
    124     Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
    125     logread), various fixes.
    126    
    127     =for html <br>
    128    
    129     Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
    130    
    131     cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
    132    
    133     =for html <br>
    134    
    135     Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
    136    
    137     mktemp.c
    138    
    139     =for html <br>
    140    
    141     Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
    142    
    143     documentation, bugfixes, test suite
    144    
    145     =for html <br>
    146    
    147     Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
    148    
    149     ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence
    150    
    151     =for html <br>
    152    
    153     John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
    154    
    155     tr
    156    
    157     =for html <br>
    158    
    159     Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>
    160    
    161     Common unarchving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput,
    162     nameif, sed, patch, fold, install, uudecode.
    163     Various bugfixes, review and apply numerous patches.
    164    
    165     =for html <br>
    166    
    167     Manuel Novoa III <mjn3@codepoet.org>
    168    
    169     cat, head, mkfifo, mknod, rmdir, sleep, tee, tty, uniq, usleep, wc, yes,
    170     mesg, vconfig, make_directory, parse_mode, dirname, mode_string,
    171     get_last_path_component, simplify_path, and a number trivial libbb routines
    172    
    173     also bug fixes, partial rewrites, and size optimizations in
    174     ash, basename, cal, cmp, cp, df, du, echo, env, ln, logname, md5sum, mkdir,
    175     mv, realpath, rm, sort, tail, touch, uname, watch, arith, human_readable,
    176     interface, dutmp, ifconfig, route
    177    
    178     =for html <br>
    179    
    180     Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
    181    
    182     cmdedit; xargs(current), httpd(current);
    183     ports: ash, crond, fdisk, inetd, stty, traceroute, top;
    184     locale, various fixes
    185     and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
    186    
    187     =for html <br>
    188    
    189     Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
    190    
    191     Original author of BusyBox in 1995, 1996. Some of his code can
    192     still be found hiding here and there...
    193    
    194     =for html <br>
    195    
    196     Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
    197    
    198     bug fixes, member of fan club
    199    
    200     =for html <br>
    201    
    202     Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>
    203    
    204     reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patches.
    205    
    206     =for html <br>
    207    
    208     Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com>
    209    
    210     wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
    211    
    212     =for html <br>
    213    
    214     Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
    215    
    216     Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
    217    
    218     =for html <br>
    219    
    220     Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
    221    
    222     Remote logging feature for syslogd
    223    
    224     =for html <br>
    225    
    226     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
    227    
    228     mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
    229    
    230     =for html <br>
    231    
    232     Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
    233    
    234     grep, sed, cut, xargs(previous),
    235     style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc.
    236    
    237     =for html <br>
    238    
    239     Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com>
    240    
    241     gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
    242    
    243     =for html <br>
    244    
    245     Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
    246    
    247     tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
    248    
    249     =for html <br>
    250    
    251     Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
    252    
    253     devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt and deallocvt.
    254    
    255     =cut
    256    
    257     # $Id: busybox_footer.pod,v 1.1 2007-09-01 22:43:44 niro Exp $
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